Hi, did anyone have a chance to look at these - no replies and they don't appear in linux-next ?? Thanks, NeilBrown On Mon, 09 Jun 2025, NeilBrown wrote: > I am working towards making some changes to how locking is managed for > directory operations. Prior to attempting to land these changes I am > reviewing code that requests directory operations and cleaning up things > that might cause me problems later. > > These 4 patches are the result of my review of smb/server. Note that > patch 3 fixes what appears to be a real deadlock that should be trivial > to hit if the client can actually set the flag which, as mentioned in > the patch, can trigger the deadlock. > > Patch 1 is trivial but the others deserve careful review by someone who > knows the code. I think they are correct, but I've been wrong before. > > Thanks, > NeilBrown > > [PATCH 1/4] smb/server: use lookup_one_unlocked() > [PATCH 2/4] smb/server: simplify ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_locked() > [PATCH 3/4] smb/server: avoid deadlock when linking with > [PATCH 4/4] smb/server: add ksmbd_vfs_kern_path() > >
